"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."

"When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you."

"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."

"The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure."

"I only want to make music because I have a passion for it."

"So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry."

"You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does."

"What is art but a way of seeing?"